Download or read book tudes sur le droit civil des Hindous written by E. Gibelin and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inconceivable Polytheism written by Francis Schmidt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Sword and the Flute Kali and Krsna written by David R. Kinsley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-05-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid sketches and interpretations of two Hindu deities: the amorous, irresistibly beautiful Krishna and the black, fearsome goddess Kali. The book traces the history and describes the mythology of both deities.
Download or read book The Sword and the Flute written by David R. Kinsley and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA ONLY
Download or read book Religion in History La religion dans l histoire written by Michel Despland and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1992-03-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the concept of “religion” in Western tradition has intrigued scholars for years. This important collection of eighteen essays brings further light to the ongoing debate. Three of the invited participants, W.C. Smith, M. Despland and E. Feil, has each previously written impressive books treating this subject; the last two acknowledged the impact and continuing influence of Smith’s work, The Meaning and End of Religion. An introduction and a recapitulation of Smith’s contribution as a scholar set the stage for a retrospective look at the published literature. Contributors then examine the transformation of words (the classical religio to the modern religion), particularities of religion in nineteenth-century France, Troeltsch’s concept of religion, the study of religion from an Asian point of view and the categorization of “World Religions.” The concluding essays elaborate contemporary anthropological, cross-disciplinary, semiological, deconstructive and psychoanalytical methodological approaches to the concept and study of “religion.” Exploring critically different aspects of the concept and study of religion, these provocative essays typically reflect the methodological pluralism currently existing in the field of Religious Studies. Of interest to scholars and students alike, this collection also contains a complete bibliography of W.C. Smith’s publications.
Download or read book Hindu Gods and Heroes written by Lionel David Barnett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hindu Gods And Heroes written by Lionel D. Barnett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hindu Gods and Heroes" is a book about India's religious practices and mythology with its abundance of gods and heroes. The author shares interesting stories of deities and epic characters from the history and mythology of India, including the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Brahmanas, epics, and later.
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Deities Demi gods Godlings Demons and Heroes written by Fredrick W. Bunce and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hayagr va in South India written by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how mythology may be purposively adapted in the service of theology. It does so at the hand of Hayagrīva, since the 14th century C.E. revered as a full form of the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu in the local Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition of South India, but originally a relatively minor pan-Indian deity. Convincingly laying bare the complexity in respect of the pan-Indian images of Hayagrīva, it makes clear that there is no single unilinear history of this deity. It subsequently reconstructs the ‘Śrīnivaiṣṇava History’ of Hayagrīva, and brings out the selectivity involved in borrowing materials from the pan-Indian and local levels. Amidst the incredible complexity encountered here, this study exposes, however, that the emblems and functions of different images show continuity, although a god’s status may change according to the sect.
Download or read book Goddesses And Women In The Indic Religious Tradition written by Arvind Sharma and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the lead of a "hermeneutics of surprise" the book identifies, indeed, surprising new material, and offers unexpected new insights essential to the debate on the position of goddesses and women in ancient India.
Download or read book The Divine Consort written by John Stratton Hawley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a conference held June 1978 at Harvard University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Download or read book The Meaning of Cooking written by Jean-Claude Kaufmann and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in French as Casseroles, amour et crises"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Krsna Lord or Avatara written by Freda Matchett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of three Sanskrit texts, the Harivamsa, the Visnupurana, and the Bhagavatabelonging to the puranic genre, the chief source of knowledge of the origins of popular Hinduism. It treats them as integrated compositions and displays the theological motives and creative skill which have gone into the making of them. It shows how all three texts contain narratives which present Krishna as one of several subordinate manifestations (avataras) of Vishnu. All three use much the same traditional material, yet each, by arranging this material in its own way, presents a distinctive view of Krishna, and the most influential of them, the Bhagavata , builds up a world view in which Krishna, not Vishnu, is supreme.
Download or read book Isis written by George Sarton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.
Download or read book Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures, both familiar and unfamiliar, showing their place within the Hindu order that they violate. It is also a reflection of the serious scholarly debate over the nature and composition of this Hindu order. The chapters range from pan-Hindu deities such as Bhairava and Virabhadra to guardian gods of specific regions and lineages and of different goddess cults. Chapters cover violent themes in SAaivite hagiography, the position of Brahmans in relation to cultic carnivorism, guardian heroes in folk epic, the deified dead, the royal mythology of a "criminal caste," and a wide-ranging overview of transgressive sacrality.
